By Steven Parry: Staffordshire University ladies hockey team has raised more than £300 for the charity Christie’s.

The team hosted a bingo night at The Famous Lion pub, in Church Street, Stoke- on-Trent.

By Alexandra Ashton: Staffordshire University students have hit out at Stoke City Council over its parking permit system.

Wardens patrolling the streets around Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent, have been handing out £50 fines to cars parked without a permit.

By Emma Glanfield and Beth Hepple: Pictures of a Stoke-on-Trent property destroyed by fire have shown just how lucky three students were to escape alive.

StaffsLive has been given an exclusive look inside the Leek Road property which was gutted after the blaze on November 6.

The fire – which police are treating as unexplained – has caused around £80,000 worth of damage to the house.

By Roxanne Nicholls & Laura Martlew: Six out of 10 local MPs voted in favour of a rise in higher education tuition fees.

MPs across the UK voted in Parliament for the first time on the education cuts yesterday (December 9) amid more clashes between student demonstrators and police.

By Ted Woodward: Seven people have been arrested during the latest Carnage bar crawl in Hanley.

The event, organised by national firm Carnage UK, involved hundreds of Keele and Staffordshire University students on a pub crawl around six city nightspots.

EXCLUSIVE by Beth Hepple, Ted Woodward & Emma Glanfield: Students who escaped a Shelton house fire told today how they were held at knifepoint as their home was torched.

The students, speaking for the first time since the attack, revealed how one of them woke to find an intruder in his room threatening to stab him.

Moments later their house went up in smoke as the man fled the scene on Leek Road.

By Beth Hepple & Emma Glanfield: A neighbour saw a hooded youth fleeing from a Shelton house just seconds before it went up in flames in a suspected arson attack.

Three students were lucky to escape alive after their house on Leek Road was set on fire.

By Anneka Masih and Rachel Stretton: Staffordshire University students “did themselves proud” during the protest against tuition fees in London, union officers said.

Almost 500 students from across Staffordshire joined forces with tens of thousands of others at the Demolition 10.11.10 march.

And while a minority of protesters turned to violence at the Conservative HQ at Millbank Tower, the protest remained peaceful for Staffordshire students.

By Emma Glanfield, Beth Hepple and Ted Woodward: Police are appealing for witnesses to a house fire in Stoke-on-Trent.

The blaze at Leek Road in Shelton happened at around 7am yesterday (November 8) and saw three students rescued by firefighters.

And Staffordshire Police have confirmed that the fire is being treated as “unexplained”.

By Ted Woodward, Emma Glanfield and Beth Hepple: A fire at a student house in Stoke-on-Trent is being treated as arson.

Three students were lucky to escape without injury after the blaze on Leek Road, Shelton.

Police have now confirmed they are treating the blaze as suspicious, but no arrests have been made.